THE THAI FOOT SPA FOUNDER, BELINDA SIDWELL, BELIEVES BEING HEALTHY – BOTH MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY – IS IMPERATIVE TO GET THE MOST OUT OF LIFE. HER PASSION IS THE WELLNESS REVOLUTION – IT’S A WAY OF LIFE THAT SHE WANTS TO SHARE WITH EVERYONE SHE MEETS. AND HER URBAN SPA, THE THAI FOOT SPA, IS TESTIMONY TO HER LONG-HELD BELIEF IF YOU LOOK AFTER YOUR BODY, MIND AND SOUL, THEN DREAMS CAN COME TRUE.
BELINDA’S SEARCH FOR WELLNESS STARTED MANY YEARS AGO. HER HEALTH BATTLE BEGAN AT THE AGE OF 11 WHEN SHE WAS BITTEN BY A TICK WHILE HORSEBACK RIDING. WHILE BEING REMOVED FORM HER SCALP, PART OF THE TICK REMAINED. UNKNOWINGLY, THIS INCIDENT TURNED OUT TO BE A CATALYST FOR CAUSING CONSTANT FATIGUE, EXTREME EXHAUSTION AND SEVERE PRESSURE IN HER HEAD.
THROUGHOUT HER TEENS AND ERALY ADULT YEARS LOCAL DOCTORS WERE UNABLE TO GIVE HER REASONS FOR HER POOR HEALTH. POSSIBLE CAUSES WERE MOOTED BUT NOT ONE MEDICAL PRACTITIONER COULD GIVE HER A DEFINITIVE ANSWER TO HER HEALTH WOES. SHEER FRUSTRATION LEAD HER TO SILENCE. ALTHOUGH IN CONSTANT PAIN, BELINDA DECIDED SHE HAD TO JUST GET ON WITH LIFE.
FAST FOWARD TO THE 1990’S WHEN SHE WAS WORKING IN THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY. WHILE JUGGLING POOR HEALTH AND A DEMANDING JOB WITH LONG WORK HOURS, BELINDA’S MUCH-LOVED FATHER WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IN HIS EARLY FIFTIES.
BELINDA FELT COMPLETELY HELPLESS WATCHING THE SLOW DECLINE OF HER FATHER’S MENTAL AND PHYSICAL STATE. SEARCHING FOR INNER STRENGTH, SHE FOUND SOLACE BY TAKING BRIEF TRIPS TO ASIA. IT WAS WHILE IN THAILAND BELINDA LEARNED OF THE BENEFITS OF TRADITIONAL THAI FOOT MASSGE. WORK-WERAY AND SOUL-DRAINED, SHE DECIDED TO TREAT HERSELF TO A 60 MINUTE THAI FOOT MASSAGE INCORPORATING ASIAN REFLEXOLOGY; THE BENEFITS WERE IMMEDIATE. SHE FELT CALM, RELAXED AND REJUVENATED. THE THAI FOOT MASSGE BECAME PART OF HER DAILY ROUTINE.
KNOWING, THROUGH FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE, THESE TRADITIONAL FOOT MASSAGES COULD BENEFIT SO MANY PEOPLE, IN THE EARLY 2000’S BELINDA CREATED AUSTRALIA’S FIRST ASIAN-INSPIRED URBAN SANCTUARY FOCUSSING ON ANCIENT FOOT MASSAGE TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE OVERALL HEALTH AND WELLBEING.
TODAY, THE THAI FOOT SPA IS ON ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S LEADING URBAN SPA’S. IN OCTOBER 2019, BELINDA EXPANDED HER TREATMENT MENU WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF AYURVEDA FOOT SPA’S.
WHY AYURVEDA? BELINDA SAID IT HAS HELPED HER TO COMPLETE HER JOURNEY TO ACHIEVE MAXIMUM HEALTH. SHE EXPLAINS: ‘AROUND 2017 I STARTED VISITING INDONESIA FOR BUSINESS AND I FELL IN-LOVE WITH UBUD, A BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE LOCATED IN THE MOUNTAINS OF BALI. IT WAS IN UBUD THAT I CONTINUED YOGA, MASSAGE AND REFLEXOLOGY. I SOURCED EXPERIENCED ACUPUNCTURISTS, MET SPIRITUAL HEALERS, LEARNT KUNDALINI MEDITATION AND CHANGED MY DIET. THE CORE TO THESE CHANGES WAS MY IMMERSION IN THE ANCIENT INDIAN AYURVEDA SYSTEM OF MEDICINE, LIFESTYLE AND PHILOSOPHY. THIS APPROACH TO HEALING HAS ENHANCED MY WAY OF LIFE AND IMPROVED MY GENERAL WELLBEING BEYOND BELEIF. I AM LIVING PROOF THTA AYURVEDA AND THAI REFLEXOLOGY AND MASSAGE HAS HELPED ME TO ACHIEVE OPTIMUM WELLNESS AND BALANCE OF MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT. THE THAI FOOT SPA AND OUR SOOTHING PAMPER TREATMENTS HELPED ME TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL’.
BELINDA’S CREDENTIALS INCLUDE TRAINING AT WAT PHO TRADITIONAL MASSAGE AND MEDICAL SCHOOL IN BANGKOK ANS THE LONDON CENTRE OF AYURVEDIC TRAINING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. SHE CONTINUES TO STUDY AND EXPERIENCE DIFFERENT MODALITIES TO ENSURE THE THAI FOOT SPA OFFERS THE VERY BEST WELLNESS TREATMENTS AVAILABLE.
